Andy celebrates 20 years with KUVO on Labor Day 2009, when he started as a volunteer on-air host and eventually became the stations Music Director. He still is involved with KUVO as the creator and producer of Jazz Tales, a program that merged Andy’s talents as an award-winning poet, broadcaster and musician. Andy was born in New York City but has lived in Denver virtually all his life. He’s half Irish and half Shoshone and revels in coming from two distinct and rich cultures… One of the many reasons he feels KUVO is so very important to its listeners is its attention to various cultures.

Currently Andy is the leader of the eclectic band Coyote Poets of the Universe, who has just released their fourth CD and he is working on his first book of his own poetry.

Andy lives next to the Highline Canal and when he isn’t playing music, writing, performing or broadcasting he spends time walking on the canal and enjoying the beauty of Colorado.

Arturo has been part of "The Oasis in the City" since the Spring of 2003.  Before that, he was part of Miami's jazz station for 13 years. Arturo was fortunate to have been raised listening to the progressive radio stations of Los Angeles instilling in him a love and knowledge of many music styles while his parents hosted many Cuban music dance parties at home.  Arturo is an award-winning Music Director he's been awarded the Music Director of the Year honors for 3 consecutive years while at jazz89 KUVO and once before in Miami. Arturo brings an enthusiastic and passionate approach to his music programs coupled with pertinent information in the traditions of classic jazz radio. Arturo proudly states, "Jazz is his favorite 4-letter word and the world's greatest art form."

email Bob at bob@bobwithbobparlocha.com

Born and reared in Vallejo, California, Bob learned about jazz from his mother's Count Basie and Duke Ellington records. He grew up listening to former KJAZ owner Pat Henry, broadcasting at that time on KROW, and to Jerry Dean, who used to do a weekly KJAZ show from Vallejo. In high school, Bob played saxophone and flute and sang in road bands.
For 10 years jazz remained a hobby while he worked in psychiatric nursing at UCSF, developing interpersonal skills that would serve him well in the music business. After one routine day at the hospital, he heard Pat Henry inviting prospective deejays to submit audition tapes to KJAZ. Bob sent in his tape and Henry ultimately hired him to program Saturday evenings, which eventually led to the Dinner Jazz shift.
A sensitive programmer, articulate spokesman for jazz, and astute analyst of the music scene, Bob's master of ceremonies style has enhanced many jazz concerts and fundraisers. His credits include the Gil Evans Orchestra's concert at the Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival, the UC Berkeley Jazz Festival, Oakland Arts Explosion, Jazz at the Palace, Bay Area Jazz Awards, the San Francisco International KJAZ Festival, and KJAZ host on the SS Norway Jazz Cruises. Check out Bob's Playlist

Javon Jackson with Carlos Lando

Carlos has over 30 years of experience in radio - his first night on the air was on the Armed Forces Caribbean Network in Puerto Rico, followed by a stint at WOUR-FM in New York.  He began a new show on WZAR called "Jazz - Where It's Been and Where It's At", where he interviewed greats like Count Basie, Dexter Gordon, Betty Carter and many others.  He then moved to Denver where he spent five years at KDKO and a year at KBCO before coming to KUVO.  In addition to being the COO and overseeing the daily operations at jazz89 KUVO, Carlos has been KUVO's Program Director for over 20 years - he's responsible for making sure that "it's all about the music" on jazz89. 

There is no doubt that once you’ve heard the grooves of Charles "CD the Doctor" Dottson, it will be an experience!  Charles was born in Susanville, CA and raised in Denver. One Memorial Day his mother took him to a parade and the rumbling of the bass drum and sweet licks of the snare hits intrigued him. That led his mother to put him in private drum lessons; she let him know if you’re to play, you need learn the technical part. Charles has kept a long-time agreement with his mother asking him to never give up playing, because “you’ll never know what it could do for you or where it will take you”. He has performed at the Breckenridge Jazz Festival and with local bands Jakarta, Jazz Partners, First Take and Dotsero. He has performed with The Drifters on several occasions, and opened for Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations. As “CD the Doctor”, Charles takes time to work on ‘A Funk Above the Rest’ with Skip, a dear friend from his youth. His side career with music has turned into a great journey that still is moving forward, along with other duties of being a husband and father.

Charlie is an attorney who goes to court frequently. He is also a lifelong jazz fan and fill-in radio host on KUVO Jazz 89.3, your Oasis in the City. He sometimes writes on his blog at: jazzwithchaz.com.

Dan Feinberg started at KUVO in the summer of 1988!  He's held down the Thursday evening time slot since the early '90s. One of the highlights of his week is getting in the studio to share this music with you. Born in Detroit, Dan enjoyed popular music growing up and started his appreciation for Jazz as a high school student. That was a LONG time ago. Hopefully, you'll hear continuous GREAT MUSIC on Dan's show: old, new and everything in between.

Be sure to catch Dan's weekly feature "Hittin' at 8 with the Miles Davis Alumni Club" with live performances from Miles and anyone he played or recorded with -- everyone from Airto to Zawinul is on the playlist.

Danny Valenzuela grew up in El Paso, Texas listening to Oldies and Tejano Music. After attending UTEP on a Music Scholarship and a stint in the Navy as a weatherman, he made his home in Denver because he liked the climate and the changing of the seasons. He met Carlos Lando in the mid 80's, while working as a Broadcast Engineer. In 1990, he joined KUVO as a co-host of the popular show, Cancion Mexicana and started Denver's first Spanish DJ Service, Latin Nites DJ's. After ten years of hosting Cancion Mexicana, he moved on and hosted The Super Tejano Show on another radio station. A year of collaboration with Carlos, KUVO's Program Director, resulted in KUVO's newest program, The Latin Soul Party.

Debra Gallegos has been volunteering with KUVO since 1985 when she hosted a Wednesday evening jazz show.  Today she is the co-host of Canción Mexicana and expresses her eclectic taste that includes traditional interpretations from artists such as Flaco Jimenez or Ana Gabriel; and the innovative sounds of Albert Zamora and Gonzalo.  She grew up in Denver and has been an actor and musician for most of her life, performing in Colorado and the southwest.  She loves working with Flo Hernandez, the brains and corazon of Canción Mexicana, as they bring a smile to your face every Sunday morning.

Born in Memphis and raised in the Midwest, Dee Dee Bridgewater moved to New York and – as Glinda the Witch in The Wiz on Broadway – won a 1975 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. Monday nights, she sang jazz with the popular Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra downtown at the Village Vanguard.  In the 1980s, Bridgewater settled in Paris to perform in Sophisticated Ladies and Lady Day, a one-woman portrayal of Billie Holiday in French, which earned her a Sir Laurence Olivier Award nomination.

In 1995, her self-produced CD Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver brought Bridgewater's voice back to the United States. Dear Ella, dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald, won two Grammy Awards in 1998. Subsequently, Bridgewater has produced This Is New with music of Kurt Weill, and J'ai Deux Amours/Two Loves Have I. Her current self-produced, Grammy-nominated album, Red Earth – A Malian Journey, features Bridgewater with her trio, guest vocalists and a balaphon/kora/flute/percussion/vocal ensemble from the small west African nation she embraces as her ancestral home.

Bridgewater became the host of JazzSet in October 2001, on the retirement of the original host, saxophonist Branford Marsalis.

K   is for Krafty

-    is for

N   is for Naughty

E   is for Earthy

E   is for Engaging

Originally from New York, Easy Bill has been the host of the R&B Jukebox since November 2002. He was introduced to the sounds of honking saxophones, pounding pianos, and the Big Beat through the swing revival of the mid-nineties. Learning more about the music from books and old magazines led to a job at a record store, where he began collecting his extensive music library that he now shares with listeners across the Front Range every Saturday night on the R&B Jukebox.

A musician himself, Bill has played guitar in various groups since moving to Colorado, in genres ranging from rockabilly to straight-ahead blues. He now fronts his own band, Easy Bill & The Big Beat, and performs around the area when not hosting the show. Their debut CD, entitled "Midnight Creep", was recorded in the Performance Studio at jazz89 KUVO.

On his nights off he can be found swing dancing with his friends, going out to enjoy live music, or trying to figure out when Rolando Garcia is actually going to be in town so that they can hang out.

email Erik at ectroe@gmail.com

Gee whiz!  Whoda thunk that the son of Iowans could have reached the heights of cosmopolitan prestige as host of a two-hour program on the nation's number-one jazz and blues station?  It really does go to show that you really can be anyone you want to be in this land of ours...

Although I was born in LaGrange, IL (just like John A. Lewis of my favorite group, the Modern Jazz Quartet), I've been a Denverite since 1981.

My father, a trumpeter, introduced me to the sound of jazz via his collection of Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie and Maynard Ferguson records and I took off from there.  My association with KUVO began in the summer of 2002.  I came in thinking I had something of a solid background in jazz but boy, was I humbled by the encyclopedic knowledge of Ed Danielson, Rodney Franks, Carlos Lando and others on the jazz89 staff.  Filling in the gaps of my own musical education - an ongoing process, of course - has been a very enriching experience for me, and I truly enjoy getting to share my passion for music with you on the air. 

When I'm not dorking out on my LP collection (about 3000 albums and growing quickly), you can find me working at Twist & Shout Records on Fridays, at the KUVO office spiffying up our station website other weekdays, or just sitting on the couch watching cartoons and playing ancient video games.

Contact Flo at flohernandezramos@comcast.net

Recently dubbed “the spiciest show on radio” by the Denver Post, Flo recognizes what a potpourri of ingredients Cancion Mexicana offers and what a responsibility she has mixing them all together. It’s the best Colorado, New Mexico and Tejano music with a little bit of information from Latino USA and What’s Happening in Our Community presented in English, making it accessible to non-Spanish speaking Latinos and non-Latinos.

Flo came to Denver via Lamar, Colorado where she learned to appreciate the classics like Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Pedro Infante, and Javier Solis from her mother’s 33 1/3 rpm singles that seemed about an inch thick. She attended the University of Colorado in Boulder where she was introduced to the grape boycott, the UFT struggles and became an active part of the UMAS, the United Mexican American Students. She was working at the Colorado Attorney General’s office when she became involved with the group working to put KUVO (derived from “q’vo - Hi, what’s happening) on the air. In 1985 Cancion Mexicana was KUVO’s attempt to serve the Spanish-speaking community, but as more Spanish-language radio stations came into the market, the program evolved into what it is today. Flo started hosting the show in 1990 along with Mercedes Hernandez and Danny Valenzuela. Years later she’s still playing the music and having fun doing it!

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Last summer, Geoff Anderson marked 20 years as a KUVO volunteer. For almost all that time he has been on the air Tuesday evenings. Geoff started in public radio in 1976 at KCSU in Fort Collins. After taking a time out from radio to attend law school and start a legal career, Geoff dove back into jazz radio by volunteering at the then fairly new KUVO in 1988.

Geoff is a fan of many types of music and attends concerts around town on a regular basis. He writes reviews of most of the shows, many of which are posted on kuvo.org and allaboutjazz.com. Working in radio in the '70s and being a music junkie in general during that time resulted in an extensive record collection that he has kept intact to this day. That provides the material for Geoff's weekly feature, "The Vinyl Vault," heard every Tuesday at 8:30. Geoff picks a record from his collection that isn't in the KUVO library to share with his listeners.

Geoff occasionally fills in on All Blues, heard Saturday evenings from 5 to 7. In his spare time he is a real estate attorney at Burns, Figa and Will.

George Peck became interested in radio and jazz at about the same time – in the 9th grade! While George's band instructor was booking the Ramsey Lewis Trio to appear in the local high school gym, George had just started a part-time after-school DJ shift on his small hometown AM radio station. While George's professional career now revolves around software and voice acting, he still loves radio and jazz. And KUVO is a great way for him to combine his two passions!

In the 1950s when everyone else his age was listening to Elvis Presley and Connie Francis, Jim Cullum locked onto the sounds of early jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton.  At first he thought he might want to play trombone, but one day while helping his dad in the grocery business, Jim caught sight of an antique cornet in a store window and fell in love.

While attending Trinity University in San Antonio, Jim formed a seven-piece traditional jazz group, the Happy Jazz Band, with his father the late Jim Cullum, Sr., who had played professionally with Jack Teagarden and others in the 1940s.  In 1963, a group of San Antonio business leaders established The Landing, a jazz club on the San Antonio River Walk, as a showcase for the Happy Jazz Band.  Under Jim, Jr.'s direction the band evolved into a nationally-acclaimed professional company known as The Jim Cullum Jazz Band.  Jim Cullum’s lifelong passion has been researching, preserving and presenting jazz and popular song from the turn of the 20th century to the mid-1940s.

Known for his long tenure with Conjunto Colores, J.T., as his friends call him, has played with many greats in all types of music, such as jazz vocalist Leon Thomas, keyboardist Richard Kermode (Janis Joplin, Santana), David Amram, bassist Marshall Hawkins, Richie Cole, Jon "Bowser" Bauman of Sha Na Na, The Drifters, The Coasters, Lesley Gore, The Shirelles, local artists Hazel Miller, Vic Cionetti, Ron Henry and Mistura Fina among many others.
He has also been a clinician with drummers Gerry Brown, Mark Craney, percussionists Alex Acuña, José Rossy (Weather Report) and guitarist Robben Ford.
J.T. is currently touring with guitarist Eddie Turner in support of the Northern Blues releases "Rise" and "The Turner Diaries", and has recorded Eddie's next CD "Miracles and Demons" with producer Kenny Passarelli.
He also hosts "Salsa Con Jazz"on KUVO 89.3 FM Sundays 4-6 PM.
J.T. Trujillo is a Yamaha Guitars, GHS Strings and Markbass Amplifiers Artist.

I grew up on the plains of eastern Colorado, and was exposed to jazz at a very young age through my Dad’s love of the music. He traveled to Denver on business regularly, and always found time to go to the jazz clubs that flourished in Five Points, and made friends with a great many of the musicians that played there. This was in an era when white men didn’t often go to the Points, but Dad could sniff out a good jazz club almost anywhere, and went fearlessly. He taught me not only a love of jazz but also to ignore skin color and see the person. I’ve loved jazz and people ever since.

I have been a volunteer with KUVO for nearly 7 years, staring out volunteering for the pledge drives, answering phones. I have been listening to KUVO for quite a while, and decided it was time to get involved. I became more involved with the drives, finding that working at KUVO was like being part of a big, happy family, meeting great people and getting to listen to great music as a bonus.

In 2007, I started doing on-air work, filling in on nights and weekends for vacationing regular hosts. This has continued since, and I truly enjoy the chance to get on the air and share my love of jazz with our listeners. In my programs, I try to stay with the general theme of the host I am replacing, if they have one, but I do try and play a wide variety from the station’s vast library. The greatness that is jazz really can’t be put into any particular box; like one of my Dad’s favorite sayings was, “Jazz just IS.” 

Kim Baxter grew up in Denver and was introduced to jazz by listening to KUVO way back in the junior high days. She has been a KUVO volunteer for the last few years, and began hosting Jazz Odyssey about a year ago. Through her work at KUVO, and the shared knowledge of some good friends, she has continued her education in jazz, electronica, soul, funk, and great music in general. Tune in on Thursdays for laid-back grooves: downtempo, emerging jazz artists, and some good beats and funky stuff. 

For over 21 years, Linard “Scotty” Scott has hosted Origins / Orgy in Rhythm, “the Black Experience translated into music.” He has interviewed many musicians including: Oscar Brown, Jr., Hugh Masekela, McCoy Tyner, and Bo Diddley, has emceed for Nina Simone, Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders and Branford Marsalis, among others. He is a disc jockey and an archivist of Black Music, having collected over 25,000 albums, CD’s, cassettes, books and other memorabilia. Scotty is a published poet, essayist, writer and lecturer. He also teachers kindergarten at Gilpin Elementary and after a 40 year hiatus, is continuing his formal education by pursuing a degree in African American Studies at Metropolitan State College.

Born Margaret Marian Turner in 1918 in Windsor, England, Marian began to teach herself Chopin waltzes on the piano by ear when she was only three years old. She later pursued classical training at London's Guildhall School of Music before joining a four-piano vaudeville act, traveling throughout Europe during World War II to entertain the Allied troops.

While on tour in Belgium, she met and began to perform with her future husband, famed Chicago cornettist Jimmy McPartland. In the U.S. after the war, McPartland performed for a brief time with her husband's Dixieland quintet. But she heard the call of bebop and began to head in other musical directions.

McPartland formed her own trio and landed a two-week stint at the renowned Hickory House in New York City. With her ability to gently shepherd a poignant ballad, to swing with real power, and to stay ahead of new developments in jazz, McPartland turned those two weeks at the Hickory House into an eight-year residency. It became a gathering place for jazz colleagues such as Oscar Peterson, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington.

Since April 1979, legendary pianist Marian McPartland has welcomed a stellar line-up of jazz artists for one hour of conversation and improvisation on her Peabody Award-winning program. Each week, McPartland, with her engaging personality and improvisational savvy, hosts a variety of performers in her radio living room.

Matt Seres has been on the air at KUVO for over a dozen years. He began volunteering when Kaveh Rastegar had a show in the mid 90s and took over for Kaveh when he moved away in 1996. He then began hosting the Friday overnight shift from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. following the 'So What Show.' He hosted 'Jazz on the Edge' for about 5 years and has hosted 'Jazz Odyssey' on Monday nights since its' inception. His favorite color is green and he enjoys long walks on the beach and sunsets.

"Mama Kat" was born in Denver and raised in Trinidad and Valdez Colorado. She graduated in 1946 from Pueblo Central High and from Pueblo Junior College in 1948. She has accomplished many great things, including raising twin sons, graduating from Metropolitan State College of Denver in 1975 and working for the Federal Office of Health a Human Services in the Department for Civil Rights for 33 years. She has been a dedicated volunteer at jazz89 KUVO for over 21 years and has had her Rockin' In Rhythm show since 1992. Mama Kat currently serves as a senior volunteer for the Regional Transportation District (RTD) at community events such as Juneteenth and the Denver Black Arts Festival.

Common with P.A.A.S.

My mantra since day one has been to elevate the game, and since 1998, I’ve been spittin’ at clubs and jams from Denver to San Diego to New York, pushing to contribute to Hip Hop by challenging other Hip Hoppers to grow through knowledge and skills. I believe that Hip Hop can be used as a platform for spiritual enlightenment. Over the years, I’ve worked to cultivate my artistic craft continuously, as one of the original members of Future Jazz Project and the Break Mechanics and now as a solo artist. I’ve shared the stage with greats like KRS-ONE, Slick Rick, The Roots, Zap Mama and Al Green, to underground legends like Ozomatli, Psycho-Kinetics, Gift of Gab, Rah Foundashun and the Life Crew. What drives me is my spirituality, being Afrikan-centered, and the power of being myself. I want to contribute value to this culture, our culture. I'm making moves as the on-air host of Mahogany Soul Child Radio, every Saturday night from 9 to 11, playing the best Soul, Neo-Soul, R&B, Old School and Classic Hip Hop, launching my company A.S.R. Innertainment, dropping mixtapes, singles and EPs and, as always, continuing on my spiritual path toward evolution.

Email Pete at quiljazz@nilenet.com

Beginning about 1957, I recall the Pop, R&B, and jazz radio from Philadelphia and Wilmington. Aside from absorbing that richness, a "side trip" to the Caribbean, Africa, and India while serving in the Navy rounded out my musical world. For the last thirty years I have worked in non-commercial radio in Philadelphia, at the University of Delaware, and across Colorado. Since November 1998, I have been a musical host on KUVO and have enjoyed every minute on the air, save for the occasional angst felt by having to choose between which great songs to play...Please join me Mondays from 7 till 9 p.m. as I present a musical gumbo that I hope you'll like.

Sam Mayfield has been hosting All Blues on KUVO for almost eight years. He is a master blues guitarist, singer and composer who gigs all over the world. Sam performs with soul / r&b legend Solomon Burke and with his own band, the Sam Mayfield Blues Review.

Born in Denver, Skip has had a varied and exciting career in the entertainment business. He started off playing the accordion at 7 years of age, moved on to the piano at 9, and the guitar at 10. He switched to the drums at 16. Skip has shared the stage with The Temptations, Santana, Joan Osborne, Average White Band, Boney James, Russ Freeman & The Rippingtons, Gerald Albright, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Primus, The Kinsey Report, Tab Benoit, Koko Taylor, Robben Ford & The Blue Line, Donald Harrison, El Chicano, Malo, and a list of others.  

As of Jan 06, Skip is the on-air host of “A Funk Above The Rest”! In collaboration with his radio show, Skip is also writing a regular monthly column in the magazine Colorado Music Buzz.

But it doesn’t stop there! Skip has been a huge supporter of independent artists ever since the inception of his radio show. This support has not gone unnoticed. Since November 2007 Skip has hosted a new TV show called “A Funk Above The Rest Presents: The Independent Artist Showcase”. The program continues his desire to expose lesser-known but talented artists to a larger audience. The show airs on Colours TV, which shares it’s programming on DISH Network Channel 9407.

Due to Skip’s height he is affectionately known as the “Worlds Tallest Drummer”. Whether he is layin’ down a powerful groove behind the drums, reading a fun story to young children, or hosting a funky music radio show, Skip is very passionate about everything he does. He lives by the slogan, “Don’t Be Afraid To Slam It” meaning, “Just give it your best”!

Stan Astrovsky has been a valuable member of the KUVO team for many years. In 2001 he got involved with JazzTales and started volunteering in on-air programming.  He was a substitute host for Jazz on the Edge, starting in 2002 and took over as host of the show in 2005. He is the Tuesday night host of Jazz Odyssey, having previously hosted Odyssey on Wednesday nights.  Stan loves avant-garde and Nu-Jazz, and outside of KUVO he is a poet, collage artist and works in the health care field.

It was the summer of 1967. An old high school friend I ran into one night said “C’mon, let’s go to the city (NYC) and hear some music.” The joint was the Half Note; the player was some guy I had never heard of (because I has no idea what jazz was) named John Coltrane. I was blown away that night and am again when, after twenty plus years listening to KUVO and several years of volunteering on KUVO pledge drives, a chance to be a substitute on-air host emerged, leading to a regular spot in KUVO’s 2010 line-up hosting “Afternoon Jazz” three days a week. Looking back at the years and sounds since that first exposure to jazz, life’s rear view mirror shows a lifelong interest and involvement in politics, social justice, and the community, reflected by one career as a union representative for the AFL-CIO and another with the American Diabetes Association. When not listening to jazz or riding my bike, you can find Jan and me listening to live jazz at Dazzle or one of the other venues or festivals around Denver and Colorado. We enjoy not only the “big” names that come through but the excellent array of locally based jazz musicians who on any given night could be playing anywhere in the country but who have the good sense to live in Colorado, as have we since 1978. Contact me at stevesjazz@comcast.net.
 

I am a Denver native. I have loved broadcasting since I was a kid, so being on-air at KUVO has let me live my dream of being on the radio. I started in April of 1989 typing the logs and doing whatever else Carlos needed help with, then a few months later I was trained as an on-air host and I got my first shift, 2-5 a.m. Thursday night / Friday mornings. I have done every shift on-air as a substitute host except the Sunday shows.  Being associated with KUVO has helped me meet great musicians and hear wonderful music live in concert, and I have been so fortunate to have been a part of this musical family. I love KUVO, public radio and jazz, and I hope we can always keep the music alive! Thanks to all the wonderful listeners for supporting Jazz89.

Nobody doesn't love Susan.

Susan has been an on-air host at KUVO since 1997.  Starting as a volunteer, she hosted Tuesday afternoons from noon till 3 p.m., and filled in as the receptionist. In 2000 she hosted the 9 a.m. to noon slot on Thursdays. She became the full-time host of Midmorning Jazz in 2001 and was promoted to the Assistant Program Director's position.  Susan has been a jazz fan since she was 14 years old. Growing up in a musical family she was exposed to many styles of music, but jazz was the music she fell in love with.  An avid photographer, Susan has photographed hundreds of musicians and documented many of the concerts in the KUVO Performance Studio.  If there is a jazz concert in town you will more than likely see Susan hosting as the emcee or behind the scenes promoting the music and KUVO.  She recently produced her brother's new CD Step Lightly.  It is "always a beautiful day" when Susan is hosting her show.  Tune in during Midmorning Jazz for great music from the Masters and the latest new releases from musicians who are keeping the spirit of jazz burning brightly!

Victor graduated from Denver's East High School and attended CU before serving in the Air Force.  He has a long history in broadcast journalism, including Channel 7 television and radio stations KOSI, KADX, KRKS and KHIH - to name a few. He started as a volunteer substitute on-air host and is now our Production Manager.  Victor handles the "voice" of KUVO, creating the recorded spots, recording interviews and shows and a whole lot more! 

Wendy Fopeano is a jazz vocalist based in Denver, Colorado. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Wendy started out as an instrumentalist, playing electric and acoustic bass, trumpet, guitar, and piano, before choosing voice as her main instrument. She sings jazz and is also very interested in ethnic music, especially Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and Indian. She studied Indian classical vocal techniques in Mumbai, India during a residency in 1999 and currently studies Latin percussion. She has composed children's songs about geometry and Colorado history to help kids learn these subjects in fun ways.

Wynton Marsalis is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in classical music. He is also the Musical Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. A compilation of his series of inspirational letters to a young jazz musical student, named Anthony, has been published as To a Young Jazz Musician.

Marsalis has made his reputation with a combination of skill in jazz performance and composition, a sophisticated yet earthy and hip personal style, an impressive knowledge of jazz and jazz history, and skill as a virtuoso classical trumpeter. As of 2006, he has made sixteen classical and more than thirty jazz recordings, has been awarded nine Grammys between the genres, and has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first time it has been awarded for a jazz recording.